Re: [Matplotlib-users] date list to dates converter

[Stephen W. <ste...@cs...>]

John Hunter wrote:

>>>>>>"Stephen" == Stephen Walton <ste...@cs...> writes:
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>    Stephen> I need a function which will take an N by 3 or N by 6
>    Stephen> array... and convert them to matplotlib
>    Stephen> dates.  
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>    from datetime import datetime
>    from pylab import date2num
>    x = ...your array
>    dts = date2num([ datetime(y,m,d) for y,m,d in x ])
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This works fine, John, as do your other ideas as well.

>FYI, date2num is found in matplotlib.dates.  I'll take a look at the
>matlab datenum docstring in matlab and see about including this
>functionality in the matplotlib.dates version.
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No need.  The functionality is already there and I need to begin 
"thinking in Python."  Using tuple unpacking on rows of an array did not 
occur to me, I admit.

Steve